Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass ( German blades of grass ) is the main work of Walt Whitman, one of the greatest American poet.
Generally
The first version of this cycle consisted of untitled poems and was published by Whitman in 1855, self-published. In the next 36 years, the collection has been revised repeatedly and greatly expanded ( from an initial twelve to nearly 400 different long poems, often itself cycles of poems, in the ninth edition, 1892).
The collection of mostly written in free verse poems suggests ( with the exception of depressing poems from the American Civil War, in which Whitman helped as a nurse ), a powerful, optimistic, anthemic tone and designs as expressly American Opus emancipated from Europe confident the lifestyle of the New World.
Structure
The following list presents the distribution of the plant in the last issue of 1892 ( the so-called Deathbed Edition) for books and Whitman by written in uppercase headings particularly pointed out poems (which, remarkably, his most famous poem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, his lament to Abraham Lincoln, not one ).
- Inscriptions (26 poems) Beginning from Paumanok (19 -part cycle)
- Song of Myself (52 -part cycle)
- Salut au Monde! (13 -part cycle)
- Song of the Open Road (15 -part cycle)
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ( a 9-part cycle)
- Song of the Answerer ( 2-part cycle)
- Our Old Feuillage (long poem )
- A Song of Joys (long poem )
- Song of the Broad - Axe (12 -part cycle)
- Song of the exposure ( a 9-part cycle)
- Song of the Redwood - Tree ( 3-part cycle)
- A Song for Occupations (6 -part cycle)
- A Song of the Rolling Earth ( 4 -part cycle)
- A Broadway Pageant ( 3-part cycle)
- By Blue Ontario 's Shore (20 -part cycle)
- Reversals (short poem )
- Proud Music of the Storm ( 6 -part cycle)
- Passage to India ( a 9-part cycle)
- Prayer of Columbus (long poem )
- The Sleepers (8 -part cycle)
- Transposition (short poem )
- To Think of Time (9 -part cycle)
- Thou Mother with thy Equal Blood ( 6 -part cycle)
- A Paumanok Picture (short poem )